Alphabet Is Selling 100-Year Bonds and the White House Wants 40% of Taiwan's Chips

Alphabet is lining up banks to sell a rare 100-year bond to fund data center construction. The White House is pushing a new compact to ensure this expansion doesn't bankrupt households or drain water supplies, while simultaneously demanding 40% of Taiwan's chip production relocate to the US.

Elon Musk predicts this trajectory ends with models that skip source code entirely to generate binaries and pixels directly, meaning AI would output finished software without writing human-readable code at all.

He also announced SpaceX will build a system for anyone to travel to the Moon and Mars. Analysts note SpaceX's recent pivot to the Moon offers immediate commercial revenue due to the shorter trip time, though Musk clarified launches will still go directly from Earth to Mars due to fuel scarcity on the lunar surface.

OpenAI has begun testing advertisements in ChatGPT for free users. Sam Altman reportedly claims OpenAI is exceeding 10% monthly growth again, while internally promising a new model launch this week.

Cursor launched Composer 1.5, a model with under 1 trillion parameters that was trained with 20x more reinforcement learning, which is the technique where AI learns by trial and error rather than from examples.

Tencent released a 2-bit LLM that maintains accuracy despite extreme compression. For context, most AI models use 16 or 32 bits per parameter, so 2-bit means the model is 8-16x smaller while still performing well.

AI startups in the US are adopting "996" work culture, which refers to working 9am to 9pm, 6 days a week, just as China cracks down on it. A study found that AI tools intensify work rather than reduce it, pushing employees to work faster and longer. AI accounted for 35% of European VC deals in 2025.

Kalshi, the prediction market, has perfectly predicted every Fed rate decision since 2022.

Lockheed Martin unveiled the LampreyMMAUV, a submersible that hitches rides on host vessels to recharge, mimicking the parasitic fish it's named after to extend operational range. Pony AI has started commercial production of driverless cars with Toyota.

Google is using Android Auto data to predict crash risk from "hard-braking events," while the US government moves to ban Chinese software in connected vehicles to prevent surveillance. Air quality in California is improving, correlated with zero-emission vehicle registrations.

Ditto Bio launched to mine parasite biology for autoimmune therapies. Ozempic was found to restore knee cartilage independent of weight loss. A Harvard study linked moderate caffeine intake to lower dementia risk.

Congressman Tim Burchett claims classified briefings confirm non-human intelligences maintain multiple underwater bases on Earth.